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Loy Krathong coincides with the Lanna (northern Thai) festival known as Yi Peng (Thai: ยี่เป็ง). Yi means 'two' and peng means a 'full moon day'. Yi Peng refers to the full moon day in the second month according to the Lanna lunar calendar (the twelfth month of the Thai lunar calendar). [36] The festival is meant as a time to make ...
The most elaborate Yi Peng celebrations can be seen in Chiang Mai, [17] the ancient capital of the former Lanna kingdom. The festival is meant as a time to obtain Buddhist merit (ทำบุญ, tham bun). In recent times, floating lanterns have become so popular with all Thai people that they have become integrated into the festival in the ...
[4] [5] [6] Shen Yun is composed of eight large performing ensembles, [7] with a total of approximately 480 performers. [8] Shen Yun has performed in front of millions [9] and has toured all over the world. [7] [9] [10] Shen Yun's performances have been described as promoting sectarian doctrines and negative views of evolution and atheism. [11]
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People floating krathong rafts during the Loi Krathong festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand Yi Peng, floating lantern festival in Northern Thailand, observed around the same time as Loy Krathong. Loy Krathong is another important festival celebrated on the full moon of the 12th lunar month , which usually falls in November.
Yong and Peng call it a "huge masterpiece of notation and interpretation of the sounds and meanings of characters in Buddhist scriptures – exhaustively embracing the ancient exegetic interpretations, phonetically notating the Sanskrit classics – and it is broad in collection and rich in content".
The tradition of Yi Peng was also adopted by certain parts of Laos during the 16th century. Thousands of sky lanterns called khom loi (Thai: โคมลอย) are also released annually during the Yi Peng festival. However, this is a relatively new addition to the festival, only dating back to the first decade of the 21st century as part of ...
The Lantern Festival (traditional Chinese: 元宵節; simplified Chinese: 元宵节; pinyin: Yuánxiāo jié), also called Shangyuan Festival (traditional Chinese: 上元節; simplified Chinese: 上元节; pinyin: Shàngyuán jié) and Cap Go Meh (Chinese: 十五暝; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Cha̍p-gō͘-mê), is a Chinese traditional festival celebrated ...